Judd Legum ✓
@JuddLegum · Washington, DC · joined 17 Jul 2008
I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47 | DMs open
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1. A Senate Republican super PAC tricked a grieving father into appearing in a political ad.
A GOP operative targeted A SUPPORT GROUP FOR THE PARENTS OF MURDER VICTIMS offering an opportunity to speak about their children and gun violence.
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1. ICE has not paid outside medical providers that treat detainees SINCE LAST OCTOBER.
It is leaving hospitals and other providers with millions in unpaid bills.
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UPDATE: Still no on-the-record statement from @Sonderling47, but he has taken all of his photos offline. https://t.co/xXLtHlfSt7
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3. At a July 2015 presentation by Sonderling, a banner promised investors who received green cards would have access to “America’s Comprehensive Welfare.” This included “unemployment benefits,” “food stamps,” “free school meals,” “low-cost public housing,” “Medicaid,” and
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4. The trips, which have not been previously reported, were documented extensively by Sonderling himself, who posted hundreds of photos on a public Flickr account.
https://t.co/GQzxORxbGY
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2. The events enticed potential Chinese investors by emphasizing that their investment would make them eligible for green cards, allowing them to live permanently in the United States through a program known as EB-5.
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1. Keith Sonderling, Trump’s nominee for Labor Secretary, traveled to China in 2015 to pitch investments in a Florida real estate project.
During these events, Chinese nationals were promised green cards and access to “America’s Comprehensive Welfare” https://t.co/v79N7OMeSl
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@JuddLegum Messing with OUR money that we paid into Social Security our whole lives? They have no idea what they are unleashing. This would even be the last straw for many MAGA. https://t.co/TEGl8N303O
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8. The combination of fewer workers, fewer offices, and a massive increase in the demand for in-person services could sabotage the Social Security system — denying many Americans the benefits they are due.
The memo predicts "service disruption," "operational strain," and https
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6. The memo anticipates creating a huge surge in demand for in-person appointments as the SSA slashes staff and closes offices.
The SSA, pushed by DOGE, is planning to cut 12% of its staff and is shuttering dozens of offices.
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7. An SSA source said there are "no significant concerns about fraud at intake" because multiple layers of ID verification take place before a claim is approved.
The source said they believe the new steps are an effort to "create additional hurdles to filing claims and
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5. In 2023, the most recent data available, there were about 119,128 daily visits, on average, to SSA offices. 85K more weekly visits would be a 14% increase. The wait time for an SSA appointment, even before these changes, averaged over a month.
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4. Under the new system, this would force these populations to visit an office to have their claim processed. The memo estimates it would require 75,000 to 85,000 in-person visitors per week to SSA's offices to implement the policy
SSA offices do not have the resources to http
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2. The memo, authored by Acting Deputy SSA Commissioner Doris Diaz, purports to be motivated by a desire to mitigate "fraud risks."
Elon Musk has pushed several false claims about the nature and scope of Social Security fraud.
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3. The biggest change contemplated by the memo is to require "internet identity proofing" for "benefit claims… made over the phone."
When an SSA customer is "unable to utilize the internet ID proofing, customers will be required to visit a field office to provide in-person http
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1. EXCLUSIVE
An internal Social Security Administration memo, dated March 13, lays out a plan to sabotage the agency.
The memo itself predicts "service disruption," "operational strain," and "budget shortfalls" will result.
Follow this thread for details. https://t.co/n
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Aynı büyüklükteki hesaplara karşı
Son 90 güne ait 8 gönderi, 100K–1M takipçi aralığıyla yan yana. boyutuna göre olağan erişim, çoğundan daha güçlü tepki.
Medyan görüntülenme9 610bu hesap4 772100K–1M için medyan
Erişim, %1.90%bu hesap1.67%100K–1M için medyan
Etkileşim, %2.79%bu hesap1.23%100K–1M için medyan
| Ölçüt | Bu hesap | 100K–1M için medyan | Oran |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gönderi başına medyan görüntülenme | 9 610 | 4 772 | 2.01× |
| Erişim (görüntülenme ÷ takipçi) | 1.90% | 1.67% | 1.14× |
| Etkileşim oranı | 2.79% | 1.23% | 2.26× |
Bu aralıktaki diğer hesaplar → Başka bir hesapla karşılaştır → Bu kıyas değerleri nasıl kuruluyor →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
115K17 Mar
83.9K
75.8K
69.1K
85.2K
14.7K
37.8K31 Aug
2.8K
4.7K
2.1K
4.3K
22.6K
28.7K1 Sep
14.6K3 Sep
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
2.09%17 Mar
3.06%
3.11%
1.97%
3.13%
4.70%
2.24%31 Aug
5.36%
2.72%
6.30%
1.51%
2.19%
11.83%1 Sep
2.85%3 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.23%.
What the audience does
Likes63.0%36 402 in total
Reposts25.9%14 960 in total
Replies1.4%807 in total
Quotes1.4%787 in total
Bookmarks8.3%4 780 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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